Rachel Kim

Rachel Kim tracks the data broker industry so readers do not have to. For the past six years she has run and documented opt-out processes across every major people-search site, testing which brokers honor removal requests, which ones stall, and how quickly deleted records repopulate. Her testing logs form the basis of this site's data broker guides, which are re-verified on a rolling schedule because broker behavior changes constantly. Before specializing in consumer privacy, Rachel worked in compliance operations, where she handled data subject requests under state privacy laws and saw firsthand how companies respond when consumers exercise their rights. She writes about people-search removal, address and phone exposure, state privacy laws, and the practical gap between what privacy laws promise and what brokers actually do.

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